Psalm 83 Pt 1

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All right, if you have your
Bible, you can open up to the

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Book of Psalms. I'll tell you
which one in a minute. This last

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week, I found myself in the
car more than I typically am, and

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so I picked a number of sermons
to listen to. And as I was

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picking sermons to listen to, I
came across one that said the Coming Middle

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East War. And when I saw
that title, I was like, okay,

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well, we're kind of doing a
series on eschatology. Maybe I could

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hear something here and then kind of
bring it over and do something additional in

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our series on eschatology. So I'm
like, okay, the Coming Middle East

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War. I wonder which perspective they're
going to go? All right, we'll

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see. And then I noticed that
it was the Coming Middle East War.

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But what was that? The first
part of the title was Psalm eighty three,

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the Coming Middle East War. And
immediately I was like, wait,

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what, Okay, I think I
know Psalm eighty three. Where is this

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going? Right? So I was
like, okay, I don't know,

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I don't know. So I started
I'm like I started listening and I'm like

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this, this is interesting because the
way the Psalm is written it clearly seems

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to be using language speaking of something
that had, like for them, from

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the author's perspective, had already happened
or was happening at the time, kind

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of a past present kind of concept, right, not a future. So

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I'm like, why how is he
going to get to a future war or

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coming war? He's he saying a
coming war from the perspective of the psalmist

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or like where is he going?
So I decided to review for the podcast

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part one because it's an eleven part
series. So I reviewed part one,

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and I'm like, what in the
world is going on here? Like I

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was just so confused because it turned
into discussions about everything like you know,

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rock music and the length of women's
skirts and like what is happening? And

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so I mean was so confused.
It just there was so much other stuff

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thrown into it that I was really
just confused by what was going on.

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So I think I did a second
review of part two. There was like

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two hours of review, and I
never really understood what their perspective was on

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SAW eighty three. I didn't.
I couldn't even I couldn't even summarize their

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thesis or anything, like I was
just frustrated. So then I'm like,

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Okay, well, I know we're
working on eschatology, and I know that

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we've been doing a little bit of
work in Proverbs, so let's let me

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see what I can do on SAW
eighty three. So I just started working

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and started working, and I got
note I don't even know how many pages

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of notes, and I'm like,
okay, so this is what we're going

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to do. We're going to try
to go to SAW eighty three. We're

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gonna we're gonna we're not even going
to entertain really the thesis or the hypotheses

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that this somehow has to something to
do with the future war. We will

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we will at least mention it briefly, all right, because I just I

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still don't know what was going on. But we'll try to figure out exactly

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what we can get from SSAW eighty
three and what we can learn from it

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by taking it apart and actually studying
the chapter in an in depth way.

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So there's no way we're going to
finish it this hour. I doubt we'll

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even finish it the next hour.
I don't even know how many times it

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may take. So I know this
will kind of interrupt everything else. But

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you know, once I hear something
on a chapter, I almost find it

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a challenge that, well, then
how would I approach said chapter. So

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let's see what we can do,
and let's see if we can work on

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it. Let's go to Psaw eighty
three. You'll notice that there are eighteen

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verses. So let's read Psaw eighty
three. I'm gonna read from the new

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King James. You'll see the name
of certain Well, there'll be a few

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things you may see different, and
we'll deal with that as we approach it.

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Right, But Psalm eighty three,
let's start in verse one. We

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read these words, do not keep
silent, Oh God, do not hold

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your peace, and do not be
still, Oh God, for behold your

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enemies make a tumult now. Please
note does not say your enemies are going

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to right. It says your enemies
doing it now. Right. It's a

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very present, tense kind of idea. And those who hate you have lifted

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up their head seemingly kind of a
past present situation. Right. They have

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taken crafty counsel against your people and
consulted together against your sheltered ones. They

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have said, come, let us
cut them off from being a nation.

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That the name of Israel may be
remembered no more. Again, speaking as

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if something is currently underway, has
happened, is happening not? I don't

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even know how this has anything to
do with a coming war. Okay verse

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five. For they have consulted together
with one consent, they form a confederacy

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against you, the Tints of Edom
and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagwrights.

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I think the King James refers to
the Hagwrights as the hagarens. Okay,

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there you go a gabal emmon Amelek
Felistia with the inhabitants of tire Assyria

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also has joined with them. They
have helped the children of Lot Sila verse

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nine deal with them, as with
Midian, as with Sisera, as with

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Jabin at the brook of Kishon,
who perished at Indoor, who became a

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refuse on the earth. I think
the King James says, dung there all

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right, make their nobles like Oreb
and like zeb Yes, all their princes,

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like Zeba and Zalmuna, who said, let us take for ourselves the

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pastures of God for a possession.
The King James doesn't say pastures of God.

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They says Houses of God, right
verse thirteen. Oh, My God,

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make them like the whirling dust,
like the chef before the wind,

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as the fire burns the woods,
as the flames set the mountains on fire.

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So pursue them with your tempest and
frighten them with your storm. Fill

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their faces with shame, that they
may seek your name, O Lord,

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Let them be confounded and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be put to

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shame and perish, that they may
know that you, whose name alone is

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the Lord, are the most high
over all the earth. Right, pretty

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simple, pretty straightforward. You will
notice that there is a mention of a

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lot of different groups, is there
not, Like, Hey, here's all

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these groups that are coming together,
and then I want you to deal with

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this group. Are these groups like
you've dealt with these groups in the past.

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Right, So we kind of get
a basic idea of the Psalm.

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Now again, I'm still perplexed on
how you create an eleven part series on

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the coming Middle East War from Psalm
eighty three. I'm even more more perplexed

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than after two messages in the series
on the coming Middle East War that they

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never mention the coming Middle East War. They talk about what's going on now?

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It's like it was the most bizarre
thing. So but again, I

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could I could review that and spend
the next month reviewing all of those messages.

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But at some point it just begins
to fall apart. So it's easy,

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though, to criticize, right,
It's always easy to go, I

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don't know what that sermon is doing. I don't know what It's easy to

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criticize. Whenever I criticize a sermon. What I prefer to do then is

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to then say, Okay, let's
take the same passage and see what we

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can do with it. Right,
So let's see what we can do with

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Psalm eighty three When we just read
that, does anything jump you? Like?

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Where would you put like the key
verse or the key concept? Would

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what would jump out at you when
we just read that. I know if

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you haven't read Psalm eighty three in
a long time, I know that was

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just reading it once. It's not
probably going to be easy to do.

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But did any specific thing jump out
at you? Okay? Now, yes,

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yeah, they yeah to me.
To me, what jumps out at

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me is obviously verse one. This
is samist kind of crying out to God,

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do not keep silent? Oh God, do not hold your peace and

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do not be still, O God? All right, that jumps out at

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me obviously verse sixteen, Hey fill
their faces with shame that they may that

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there's a reason he's asking for these
things, and obviously that they may know

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that you, whose name alone is
the Lord, are the most tie over

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all the earth. That may be
like the main lesson here, right,

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the main lesson may not be a
that may be the main lesson. Well,

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let's go through this and see what
we can find, all right.

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I think it's fair to say that
psaw maybe three is a prayer. Would

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everyone agree with that it's a prayer
for deliverance? I think that would be

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fair to say, and victory over
Israel's enemies. So what we need to

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do is try to create an outline, right, because if we're going to

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deal with the chapter, we need
to create an outline. On the podcast,

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I gave a like a because after
reviewing that for two hours, Somewhere

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in the middle of my review,
I was like, well, we look,

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the person who did the series didn't
even bother to outline the chapter or

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any of those typical things you should
do, right, So I'm like,

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Okay, let's come up with an
outline. So I came up with an

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outline like Live on the Air.
But after that, I've started thinking and

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thinking about it. So I've kind
of started reworking in outline. I took

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my previous outline and then changed it
up using the basic Well I thought I

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was going to use their basic scripture
breakdown, but then classify them differently,

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and then even that began to fall
apart. So we'll work through this together

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and see what you come up with. All right, how would you what

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would be your first part of your
outline? Which verses would you include in

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your first part of your outline?
You don't have to give me what you

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would call it, but what verses
would you include in the first part of

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your outline? If you were to
break this chapter down, what verses would

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you include? Okay, I'll put
verse one on your own? Okay,

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all right, that's interesting. Some
what some sources did. They put verse

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one and two together and called it
an introduction, But I disagree with that.

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Now, I don't necessarily agree with
that. I do think making verse

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one by itself makes the most sense. If you put verse one by yourself,

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what do you call it? The
request. Okay, what else?

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Anybody else? Okay, all right, there's a lot of words, okay,

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anybody else? I put down the
plea because there seems to be like

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a plea here, right. He's
pleading with God, right, right?

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And what is he pleading for?
He's crying. Really, there's kind of

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two parts to the plea, right, he crying out for God not to

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be silent and for God not to
be inactive. Now, I'm not going

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to start trying to prech each part
of this. We'll work through it.

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But I think that's a fair way
to do Verse one, right, verse

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one, we'll call that the plea. Now, what's the second part of

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your outline? What versus would you
include in the second part of your outline?

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Okay? Someone said two through eight? Okay, all right, all

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right, so he goes to two
through eight, all right, I disagree.

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Okay, no, no, no, no, okay, because here's

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here's what happens. If you look
at verse six, okay, because verse

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six there's listing. It's a list
right, that to me is very different

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than two through through five. Right, So I put two through five,

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and this is what I refer to
it the reason for the play. Well,

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yeah, but I understand that,
but I would not include the list.

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There. I separated the list,
and i'll'll explain why. I understand

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punctuation whise it may not make sense, but uh no, okay, all

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right, well, here here's how
I did. Here's what I did.

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So I went two through five the
reason for the plea, and I said

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the samis and verses two through five
lists the detailed reasons for his plea.

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He's correct, we know what he's
pleading for, for God not to be

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signed, for God to be not
to be inactive. But then he starts

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listing the reasons. Right, look
in verse two, for behold, your

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enemies make a tumult. There's there's
a reason. And those who hate you

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have lifted up their head. Next, they have taken crafty counsel against your

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people. They have consulted together.
They have said, come, let us

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cut them off from being a nation. For they have consulted together with one

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consent, they have formed a confederacy
against you. Right, those are all

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reasons, right, Hey, these
are all the reasons for his plea.

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You could literally just list them off
abc D like you could make number two

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and then list the subpoints all the
subpoints are right there for you. You

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could group together verse part of verse
three and part of verse five, because

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it's the same idea of consulting together
because it even repeats it in verse five,

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and then forming a confederacy. But
you get the basic concepts all there.

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You could list those out. So
I went with two through five the

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reasons for the police. So what
do you think I did with verse six

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through eight? I put the enemies
identified. Here's the list of the enemies,

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right, they form a confederacy against
you? And who are they?

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Number one? Eat them number two, Ishmaelites number three, mo ab number

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four, Hagarins are the Hagwrights.
Number are next gaball Amon ammlek Felictia with

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the inhabitants of tire Assyria also joined
with them. And they have helped the

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children of Lot, which is who
are the children of Lot? Okay?

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Right? The Mobikes right now,
typically we refer to as the Moabikes.

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Right, So we have a group
of them. They're all listed to me.

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That makes it simple. So number
one the plea verse one, Number

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two the reasons for the plea Verses
two through five. Next the enemy's identified

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six through eight. Now what would
you do next? I didn't know what

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to call the next section? What
would you do with the next section?

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Or the charge? Okay, that's
pretty good, all right? Okay,

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the charge? Okay? Anybody else
got a different idea? What versus would

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you place in what you're referring to
as the charge? Okay? Okay,

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So it's going all the way nine
through fifteen? Okay, okay, wow,

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y'all go far. Okay, I
put it nine through twelve. All

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right, Here's what I didn't know
what to call this, so I called

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it the past and present, the
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to do in the present as he
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deal with them? Look verse nine, deal with them? Who's to them?

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All the enemies listed in verses six
through eight, Right, deal with

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them? Next three words, as
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there. I think that's a reference
to Judges, where God intervenes and deals

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with the Midianites. So he wants
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current enemies as he had done with
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with what else does he says with
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these situations are things that happen in
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I could be wrong, but I
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Book of Judges. So he's saying, God, in the present, deal

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with these people as you have dealt
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like, very he's very specific.
Hey, God, you remember how you

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dealt with the Midianites. I need
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dealt with the Midianites, or as
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with them. Bring your past action
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to that as the past and the
present. There may be a more clever

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name for it, but what I
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there, right. What's there is
God is saying, do something now like

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you did in the past. And
he's very specific. He doesn't just say

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generally right, He's very specific for
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interesting. And it's assumed, obviously
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God did. I know what God
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God to do that in the present, and and not only that, he's

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address he's crediting God with those past
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to become a present reality. So
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and present comes in. So number
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the reason for the plea Verses two
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in verses six to eight, the
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what do you do with the rest? How far do we break this down?

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section could be very hard. Right, we have thirteen through eighteen. I

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don't know if we can group all
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don't. I think it's going to
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How many separate parts would be the
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go let's say you were just to
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thirteen through fifteen, or thirteen through
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would you call this section? Okay? I think this is a clear petition

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for God to do what defeat destroy
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for defeat. I mean yeah,
I mean, oh my God, make

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them like the tumbleweeder, the whirling
dust. Okay, like the chaff before

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the wind, as the fire burns
the woods, as the flame sets the

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mountains on fire. So pursue them
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storm. I mean that's all pretty
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I just called this petition for defeat. You could, I mean, I

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mean, obviously it's there, so
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yeah, I mean it's easier sometimes
to group things together. But the same

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concept, there's no question, shows
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shows up a little bit in seventeen. Yeah, I mean it's definitely there,

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so you could. Yeah, a
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could. I mean, there's no
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rules for outlining. You could argue
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then then the next part you're gonna
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little bit of sixteen and eighteen in
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want to work that out, but
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all right, So we could go
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here. Yeah, the desire,
what is the ultimate desire here? What

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is the what is the desired outcome? The sawmist puts forth his desired outcome,

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and it's mentioned a couple of times, right verse sixteen fill their faces

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with shame that NIV had NIV put
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they may seek your name, O
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very important, right, because you
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a that's a cry for it's a
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they have all of these individuals trying
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He lists the enemies he specifically and
what he wants God to do,

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and then he very much goes into
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when he begins to lay out his
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in some ways, right, that
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Right, that's it's not so vindictive, is it right? Let them

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be confounded and dismayed, Yes,
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know that you, whose name alone
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all the earth. Right, he
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expresses his reasons for asking God to
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I guess you could kind of summarize
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God and that they may know what
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earth. They may know his sovereignty, they may know his power, they

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may know his control. So in
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did you have something? Well,
it does, but until you get to

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that, then he's like, hey, that they may seek you. So

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obviously he uses strong language. Yeah, but I think he's kind of referring

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to them maybe as a nation.
As a nation, I want them destroying,

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as an organized confederacy, I want
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seems to want them still alive that
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just take that language, it does
sound like he wants them all dead,

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Well, you can't seek and know
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like more that that lay language is
very strong, you may even say hyperbolic

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to express what I mean it's it's
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song. Well probably yeah, oh
yeah, maybe some of them aren't not

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Felistia, not Felistia or yeah yeah, well we're gonna have to go into

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all these groups of people. Yeah
so yeah, so okay, but it

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was a good it was a good
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hey. That's what we're supposed to
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hypothesis and then we can challenge it. So but I think the I think

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the ultimate thing is is now,
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back, I think you really kind
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me in the song, right,
is you have this the whole concept of

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him pleading with God, right,
there's a whole lesson in all of that.

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And then you have his basic motivation
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think those are the two major lessons
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find more, but that's the t
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coming Middle East war or anything like
that, Like I don't. I don't

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even know all the things that that
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I was just baffled and confused but
in some ways I think we could be

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agreed that if you were just doing
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much time you would probably even stop
and consider SSAW maighty three for being honest,

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right, every being honest. Like
if you had to read three chapters

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that day and Saw eighty three was
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stop to go back and do much
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to me whenever I see that there's
a high probability I probably wouldn't spend much

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time in this chapter. That usually
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to say, well, then we
need to stop and do what spend time

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in that chapter. Because according to
us, we believe all scripture is given

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by as version of God in is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for

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correction, for instruction of wretchedness,
that the Man of God maybe thoroughly furnished

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into every good work. Right.
Well, then if that's the case,

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then we have to put that belief
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let's do something with SAW eighty three. So I don't think that the outlining

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there really isn't that difficult. Really, I don't think. I mean,

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we may have a little disagreement,
and I know that when I outline,

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I don't really care about the punctuation. I'm trying to group it together so

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that I can do what what's my
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about it all the time. It's
not interpretive, it's observational. What I

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want to do is get the what's
here on paper, so I have a

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basic map of what's there, right, And the basic map of what's there

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is clearly we see the plea right. I think everyone can agree. Clearly,

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we can see that he lists the
reasons for his plea yes, clearly.

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We can see that he identifies the
enemies clearly. I think we can

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see that he's wanting God to do
in the present what he had done in

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the past. Clearly, we can
see his petition for defeat. And then

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that last part is a little you
know, we definitely see, at least

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in part that we see his reason, his desire for all of these requests.

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So I think if we can at
least accomplish that, then the outline.

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The outline may not fit some perfect
academics standard, but it accomplishes a

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Bible study standard, which is what
I observe the text. So if I

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give someone that outline, what could
they immediately see what's in the text?

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Right? When you're done with your
outline, what do you want to be

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able to see? Is if I
look at my outline, I know what's

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in the text, not that I'm
interpreting it, but that I am observing

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it, right, observation before interpretation, Right, So I think that gives

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us a pretty good observation of what's
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at least somewhat so. In summary, I think we could say Saw eighty

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three is a plea for God to
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The Psawmist describes the enemies, their
plans, their actions, He appeals

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to God for action and defeat of
the enemies, and concludes with the declaration

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of God's supreme authority over all the
nations. I think that's a pretty basic

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idea of what's there. So we
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I think we have a pretty good
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But is there anything else we can
do? Well, let's do a little

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bit of work here, all right, let's if you uh, I think

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in probably all the King James New
King James. I don't know about the

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NIV is you probably have saw eighty
three and then there's something right underneath it

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a psalm of asp Now, I
believe in part three of the series that

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I was reviewing, they refer to
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is perplexing behind all comprehension, right
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What do we know about Asaf?
Okay, well, well, he

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definitely is. The authorship of Psalm
eighty three is traditionally attributed to Asaf,

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who was one of the chief musicians
and singers during the time of King David.

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Asaf, according to at least one
source, was a Levite figure in

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leading worship in the Tabernacle and later
in the Temple. Asaph is credited with

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composing several psalms, including Psalm eighty
three, which is well, we'll talk

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about this in a minute. Okay, we'll talk about the classification in a

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minute. So if we just stop
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from that? If Asaf is what
what was he? Again? Chief musician?

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I'm a King David? He was
also what a Levite? Get that

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down? And a key figure in
leading worship in the tabernacle. If we

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take that information, just that information
alone. There's there's more I want to

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share, but just that information alone. What does that impact how we perceive

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Psaw eighty three? Does that impact
your view of Saw eighty three in any

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way, shape or form, in
any way, shape or form. If

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it doesn't, that's okay. You
can just say no, it doesn't impact

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your view. Okay, all right, well I've already I already stated that

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worship. Okay, you're kind of
going in the direction. I'm thinking,

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I don't know, maybe you're not
going in the direction, but it feels

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like you're going in the same direction. If he's a Levite and he's leading

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worship and he composes this psalm,
then there's a high probability this was designed

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for what purpose? For public worship? Right? So this would be and

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I don't necessarily like the word,
but we'll use it. This was a

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This was not a i'll use this
word, I'll change the word. This

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was not so much personal as we'll
call it congregational or corporate, right,

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This was a This was him possibly
bringing to light the emotions and feelings of

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the people and then corporately they could
then express said emotion to God in worship.

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Right. In other words, this
may not be the salmest simply expressing

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his emotion. He may be trying
to capture the emotion of the people to

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God. Right that, Hey,
this is how we feel more than this

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is how I feel. Now,
the personal ones are I'm not saying are

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more spiritual, are less spiritual than
the congregational ones or the corporate ones,

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but they have different kind of purposes. Right that this may have been written

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obviously there's something going on that is
impacting whom Israel as a nation, right,

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I mean, I think the text
makes that very clear. Right,

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So I think that that's important.
So we have the outline, we have

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the author. Next, we have
the type of psalm. The type of

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psalm. Now let me go back
here and let's let me do this all

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right. The Book of Psalms contains
a variety of psalms that can be categorized

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into different types based on their theme, struck sure or purpose. Here are

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some of the main types of the
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Does anyone know the types of psalms? Does anybody know the types how many

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different types? Does anybody know where? They're almost all poetry? Okay,

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all right, you dowing? Okay, well then this is very important,

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all right, So let's go through
some of them first. We'll call the

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praise psalms or heymns praise psalms or
hymns. These psalms focus on praising and

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glorifying God for his attributes, deeds
and character. They often include expressions of

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adoration, thanksgiving, and exaltation.
Right, I think everybody kind of got

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an idea of those kinds of psalms. I mean, we could look up

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examples for each one, all right, but I think you understand those,

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right, So do you mere state
that again, a praise psalm or a

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hem it is a psalm that focuses
on praising, glorifying, glorifying God for

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his attribute, deed and character.
They often include expressions of adoration, thanksgiving,

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and ex altation. Now just remember
typically when we say that you may

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have fine elements of that in many
psalms, But for the psalm to be

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classified as this type, that would
describe basically the overall psalm. Does that

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make sense? All right? The
overall psalm would be characterized by praising God.

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Glorifying God, and you're glorifying him
for his attributes, his deeds,

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and his character. They include expressions
of adoration, thanksgiving, and ex altation.

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Psalm eighty three doesn't necessarily fit that
category, can we agree? All

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right? So some one hundred someone
fifty Psalm eight would be examples, yes,

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but some one hundred someone fifty would
be good examples. All right.

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Here's another type. So those are
the praise psalms or the hymns. How

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about thanksgiving psalms? These psalms give
thanks to God for his goodness, faithfulness,

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and provision. They often include recounting
of past experiences of deliverance or answered

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prayers. You see a little bit
of that in some one hundred as well.

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Okay, all right, someone sixteen
Psalm thirty. So thanksgiving psalm ps

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maybe three a thanksgiving psalm? No
it is not? Okay? All right?

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Everybody got that? All right?
There is what's known as a wisdom

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psalm or wisdom psalms. These psalms
focus on imparting wisdom and moral teaching through

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poetry and metaphor. They often contrast
the righteous and the wicked and emphasize the

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value of seeking God's guidance, what
would be a great example of that someone?

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Or Psalm one nineteen, right,
that's called a wisdom psalm. So

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far, so good. Next a
royal psalm or royal psalms. These psalms

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celebrate or pray for the key or
ruler over Israel and emphasize the divine authority

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given to the monarch. They often
express confidence in God's protection and blessing upon

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the king. We see a little
bit of this in Psalm two, maybe

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Psalm twenty, maybe Psalm seventy two. Those are royal psalms. So what

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do we got so far? Number
one? The praise psalms are the hymns.

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That's number one. My notes are
in a different order, so my

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numbering is off if on paper,
because I changed it up a little bit.

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But those are praise psalms. We'll
call number one. Number two,

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we'll call the thanksgiving psalms. Number
three we'll call the wisdom psalms. Next

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the royal psalms. Okay, we
have a couple more. Well, I'm

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gonna skip all the way down to
the last one, the penitential psalms.

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The penitential psalms, these psalms focus
on confession, of sin, repentance,

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and seeking forgiveness from God. They
express deep remorse and a desire for restoration

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of relationship with God. And you
know why there's penitential psalms because God's people

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still sin. I know that's a
shock to some people, but it's still

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true. And we find that.
Obviously, the most famous one is Psalm

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fifty one. We have Psalm thirty
two, and I believe Psalm one thirty.

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Right, so we have two types, two types that are left.

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What are the two types that are
left? The imprecatory psalms. These psalms

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contain prayers for God's judgment and punishment
upon the enemies of the upon the enemies

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of the psalmist or the enemies of
God. They express strong emotions of anger,

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frustration, and a desire for justice. Now, you may be tempted

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to say Psalm maybe three is an
imprecatory psalm, but it's not always listed

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as an imprecatory psalm. In fact, I don't think it's. Maybe in

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some list it's there, but in
many lists, Palm eighty three is not

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listed as an imprecatory all right,
It may have elements of it, right,

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It does have a little bit of
the imprecatory concepts. Kind of there.

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I think we can agree to that, right, But it's typically labeled

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what do you think is label So
that means there's another category. So let's

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go through the categories again. Number
one praysms, next Thanksgiving, next wisdom,

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next royal, next penitential, then
imprecatory, and then that leads one

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more. What can be left?
What could be left? Let me go

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back to that description I quoted to
you that information about Aceph. Right,

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are you ready? Aceph is credited
with composing several psalms, including Psalm eighty

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three, which is classified as a
psalm of Nope. It starts with an

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L no. Oh, come on, It's a pretty common word within theology.

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A psalm of lament. Oh,
I didn't hear you? Okay?

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The psalm reflects. The psalm reflects
on the enemies of Israel and calls upon

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God to intervene on behalf of the
people against their adversaries. Lament psalms are

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described like this. These psalms express
sorrow, grief, or distress and cry

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out to God for help and deliverance. They often include elements. Here are

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some of the elements in a lament, a petition, a complaint, and

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a plea for God's intervention. Right, so there's a slight difference and precatory

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or lament. There's a slight difference. There are there gonna be similarities,

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oh absolutely, in fact, just
so that you understand, sometimes these elements

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can be found in one song,
like one may have a number of these

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elements. Right. But the reason
we say it's a this song is a

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certain type is you go with the
overall what the overall feel for the entire

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song? Right? How would you
classify the overall feel, not just the

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individual parts. Sal eighty three has
a little bit of the imprecatory parts a

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little bit there, but it also
has the kind of the lament part,

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right, it has some other things
going on as well, So we refer

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to this as a lament, all
right. Psalm eighty three is often classified

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as a communal lament, a communal
lament. Why would it be classified as

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a communal lament? We think because
of who it's written by, that this

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could have possibly been what for the
congregation. That's why I stress that,

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right, because when you get so
this may be a communal lament, it's

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not an individual lament, right,
because an individual lament would be more about

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Hey word, I feel this because
of me. The ssamist doesn't really speak

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of just an individual term. He
speaks of what is happening to the nation.

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Correct, So I think that's fair. It's a communal lament. Communal

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lament psalms or prayers offered by a
community of people, such as the nation

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of Israel, rather than just an
individual. These psalms typically express a collective

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cry for help, deliverance, or
justice on behalf of the entire community.

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And Psalm maybe three, the samist
calls on God to act against the enemies

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of Israel who are threatening the nation. The psalm describes the various nations conspiring

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against Israel and ask God to intervene
on behalf of his people. The intensity

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of the pla for God's protection and
justice aligns with the characteristics of a lament

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psalm, especially on the one that
reflects a communal concern. All right,

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does that make sense? All right? Now, I think I have a

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little bit of time to do this. Maybe we can at least finish this.

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When we think of a lament psalm, right, what all the psalms,

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the different types, So that we
understand this. All the different types

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of Psalms really teach us different lessons, right, And I kind of hinted

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at that when I mentioned the penitential
song, Right, what is the lesson

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the penitential Psalms teach us was one
of the major lessons we still sin.

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I mean, that's a simple lesson, right, Hey, When I read

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the Psalms, I'm reading something written
by God's people, right, and guess

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what they do. They confess their
sins, meaning that they still sin.

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So in some ways there's a valuable
lesson, right that. Hey, if

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whether you are a collective group or
whether you are an individual, what is

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going to be true in the life
of a collective group of Christians or an

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individual life of a Christian? Sin? So that we have to know how

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to deal with sin, right,
It's like it's going to be it's I

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think typically our teaching in Christianity is
don't sin, right, but we all

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know that's the most That's like telling
someone don't when where everyone knows that they're

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going to. They're really a key
lesson in discipleship needs to be not not

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just try not to sin, but
it's a lesson that you are never going

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to stop. So, now,
how do we process the reality that,

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whether in a group or whether in
an individual, what is gonna be a

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permanent part of your life as a
believer sin, It's just gonna be there.

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It's gonna be so like whenever we
talk about a type of psalm,

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there's lessons, all right. So
if this is a lament if this is

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a lament song, we're gonna go
with that basic assumption unless I had to

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change my mind at some point.
But right now we're gonna call it a

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lament psalm. And it follows the
basic structure of this. What are some

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lessons we can learn from a lament
song? Let's try, at least in

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this hour with something practical. What
are some lessons we think we can learn

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00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:16.280
from a lament psalm? Okay,
I think the number one lesson from a

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lament psalm, and I think this
is also true of an imprecatory psalm,

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is that this teaches us the importance
of honesty and vulnerability and our relationship with

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God. Lament psalms teach us the
importance of being honest and vulnerable before God

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about our struggles, pains, and
emotion. They show us that it's okay,

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to express our deepest feelings and fears
to God. I mean, look

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what he does in verse one,
do not keep silent, Oh God,

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do not hold your peace and do
not be still, Oh God? What

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is that implying? Hey, feels
like God has been one silent and inactive?

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Hey God, could you do something? Do you think maybe it's time

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to show up? Are you looking
around and seeing the situation? I mean

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when you start telling God and you
start listening to God, what is going

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on? It's like, Hey,
God, I don't know, it's almost

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like you're acting like this. God, clearly you've been on vacation. Let

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00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:19.440
me explain what's going on? Does
he not express everything that's going on?

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Hey, they're doing this, They're
doing this, They're doing Hey, I

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00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:24.920
don't know if you know this,
they've made a confederacy. Do you mind

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00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:30.840
waking up? Like in some ways
it could almost seem disrespectful, but he's

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literally basically acting like, God,
where have you been? Could you do

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something? And people would be like
you're just showing a lack of faith.

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No, it shows greater faith to
be so vulnerable and honest with God with

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how you feel, versus putting on
a fake robe of self righteousness and acting

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like you've got it all together when
you see your circumstances. What's your I

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mean to me? I mean,
I saw this someone who's a part of

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grace to you, Phil Johnson.
He has I guess, an incurable form

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of cancer. Right, it's really
bad. Right. So he put out

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a statement, you know, basically
thinking God and you know, because he's

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still alive, and that kind of
statement, And it was posted on the

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Christian Post. Guess what the first
comment was underneath the post. Well,

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I'm so glad your God helped you
outfhil because in the last twenty four hours,

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ten thousand children have died from cancer. So where is your God now?

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Now that sounds like horrible and people
would be offended by that, But

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that's an honest expression, right,
that'sn't and it's perfectly okay to express that.

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Oh, great Phil gets saved or
at least temporarily spared, But ten

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thousand children who never even see their
first date, they'd die of cancer.

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So if God's gonna step in and
help you, why didn't he help the

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other ten thousand? Not have to
verify the number, but whether the number

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is accurate or not, what is
the person trying to express what about?

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And there's a high probability people may
want to go after that person to condemn

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that person, but you better be
very careful because that person may have lost

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a child to cancer. So you
better back off before you go after the

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person, right, meaning what what
is that? Now? Some people would

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condemn the person. No, that
is being what honest? It's okay to

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be honest about that. It's okay
to be when you hear, well,

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praise God, my kid was spared. Well, what about the people who

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were like sometimes we'll see that there'll
be a big storm and someone are like,

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00:47:40.679 --> 00:47:44.480
well, thank you Lord that we
were protecting. I'm like your neighbor

581
00:47:44.639 --> 00:47:50.719
two houses across lost everyone. Everyone
died, So I'm so glad God took

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care of you. Do you think
you deserved protection more than the person two

583
00:47:53.679 --> 00:47:59.719
blocks down the road? Like sometimes
it's it's we don't think about how it

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00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:02.280
comes across. Right now, It's
okay if you want to express it,

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but you may want to think,
well, you're expressing the good for you.

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Someone else just got wiped off the
face of the earth or suffering or

587
00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:16.679
dying. Right, Tell the people
in Ukraine how wonderful life is, or

588
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in Gaza, how wonderful life is, or in Israel, like we can

589
00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:23.840
go to all different parts of the
world, right, people starving, people

590
00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:30.039
dying, people being kidnapped, rape, children being molested. You know what,

591
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:35.280
It's okay sometime to say, hey, Lord, where are you?

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00:48:36.039 --> 00:48:38.599
Where have you been? Why have
you been silent? Why have you been

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00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:44.719
inactive? The Laments song teaches it's
okay to do what to express said lament,

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and to express a lament is to
do what to express the raw emotion.

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Right, Yes, so I think
that this shows us that it's okay

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00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:01.719
to express our deepest feelings and fears
to God. We should not be like

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00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:08.119
we almost we almost condemn people who
will do it. You know why we

598
00:49:08.199 --> 00:49:14.840
do so? I think we condemn
people who do it because it makes us

599
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:21.800
uncomfortable. Right, It's not about
God, It's about how it makes you.

600
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It makes you uncomfort I don't like
you saying that. I don't like

601
00:49:24.519 --> 00:49:30.000
you talking that way. What is
it about you? If someone feels that

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00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:35.440
way, guess what they should do. Scream it from the rooftops, right,

603
00:49:35.719 --> 00:49:38.599
Because if they don't scream it from
the rooftops and they just keep it

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00:49:38.639 --> 00:49:43.039
inside. Guess what it does.
It builds, and it builds, and

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00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:45.800
it festers and it grows, and
the next thing you know, they're on

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00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:50.360
TikTok making a deconstruction video saying that
Christianity is a bunch of garbage and it's

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not true because they never could express
what they were feeling. They should be

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able to express it. And if
that makes you uncomfortable, you need to

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get over it. Not the person
expressing the limit. I can tell you

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this, and the Psalms they express
some very strong feelings. Right. I

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used to make a joke there was
a Christian metal band in the nineties who

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they took a psalm and turned it
into a song, right, and guess

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what. They got condemned and almost
got banned from Christian radio because they were

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saying, it's so negative, it's
so depressed, it seems so angry at

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God. And they were like,
it's literally from the book of Psalms.

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Now, how can you get banned
from Christian radio from singing the Psalms?

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Well, one that seems to indicate
that the people and Christian radio may not

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actually know their Bible. But it's
gonna be happy and uplifting and positive.

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Well, life is not always happy
and uplifting and positive, is it?

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Because sometimes you wake up and guess
what. You find out that there's a

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confederacy of nations seeking to wipe you
off the face of the earth, and

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you can't figure out why God hadn't
done anything right. Like, if you

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happen to wake up on October the
seventh and be live in Israel, you

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may have found out why have a
thousand people just been killed and most of

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them at a music festival? Where
was God? Correct? If you live

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in Kaza, you may be like, where is God? Now that bombs

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are dropping on our apartment complex?
Are our hospitals? If you live in

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the Ukraine, where was God?
Why is Russia invading our country and people

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are being killed? We can go
on and on and on and on and

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on. We can go back to
World War Two. If you're a Jew

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being rounded up and taken to a
concentration camp, you may be thinking where

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is God? Right? In other
words, human life almost demands the ability

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to lament to the creator. If
there is a God, I think it's

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perfectly okay for his creation to go. Where are you agreed? Right?

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Well, that's only the first lesson
from a lament. But now we're after

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time, so we'll go through We'll
go through these lessons one more time.

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But I think that that's very fair. I think it's fair. And if

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we don't, we don't allow for
lament what happens we have to pretend,

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and pretend lasts for a while,
right, and then sooner or later what

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happens too much reality and you can't
pretend anymore, and then you become bitter,

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you become frustrated, and you're like, I'm done with God. Now

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that doesn't leave you necessary with any
better answers, right, because just remember,

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with God or without God, what
is still going to remain true?

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The pain, the suffering, the
death, the horrible situation with or without

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God, that's still going to remain. Now, which one makes you feel

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better? I don't know. Some
people say, well, at least believing

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in God makes me feel better.
Some people say, not believing in no

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God makes me feel better. Since
I gave up hope, I feel a

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whole lot better that kind of idea. But the point is you're still going

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to be left with the same situation, but the lament allows you to do

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what to speak, Here's what I
like about in precatory psalms and lament psalms,

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they give you the freedom not to
speak like church people because church people

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don't like in precatory psalms or lament
psalms. Now they like in precatory psalms.

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When they pray against Obama, then
they're all foreign precatory psalms, right,

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Or if they pray against Biden,
then they're all foreign precreatory psalms.

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But they're not foreign precreatory psalms,
and many other situations are they. But

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in precatory psalms, lament psalms sadly
are not the language of Christians. It's

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not the language of Christian radio,
it's not the language of Christian publishing.

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And that, to me is a
problem because you're told almost when you become

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a Christian, life is going to
be wonderful. You now have supernatural power,

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you're basic never going to sin anymore, everyone's going to be perfect,

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and everything's going to be great.
And that lasts for about what about five

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minutes, and so you either have
to continue to pretend to be that which

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you're not and pretend or you have
to come to face to face with the

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reality. And I think when you
come to face to face with reality.

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That's stronger faith. That's why I
think the Book of Job is so powerful.

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Did Job give church language when he
talked about his situation? He wanted

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to die, he wished he was
never born. That doesn't sound like church

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language. Does it say that?
In church? People start praying that got

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to pray for that person's salvation.
They have no faith. I think Job

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had plenty of faith. Right.
The greater faith is being honest in the

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situation, not faking the situation.
And so a lament disamis here is what

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expressing strong lament? All right,
let's pray, Lord, got we come

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before you this morning, Lord,
as we began our work through Psalm eighty

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three, let us find valuable important
lessons the Lord, help us just understand

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what exactly the main purpose of this
psalm was and what we can learn from.

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And we asked this in Jesus name, and God's people said